I don't have a Raspberry Pi, but I have been trying out Arch recently and did create some notes for myself. Below are my notes to get xfce or lxde up and running in Arch. It's not Jwm, but at least you'll have a working Desktop Environment. These notes will be easier to read if you copy them to a script and view it from geany.

Also read this to get an honest and mature appraisal of the software
http://benosteen.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/first-steps-with-the-raspberry-pi/ Start by expecting that nothing works and that you, or someone like you, will have to put the time and effort in to make it do what you want.
Be supportive and congratulatory of anyone who improves that situation. For example, going from no sound through linux to a partially working ALSA driver is cause for celebration, not ‘WTF Boo SUCKS’
More of guideline #1 – if you expect everything to work Out-Of-The-Box this early on, you will be disappointed.

I wonder if they read sickguts adventures with a mountain and mouthwash . . . _________________Puppy WIKILast edited by Lobster on Tue 24 Apr 2012, 06:48; edited 2 times in total

You're welcome. Please note that in the "UPDATING ARCH" section, that the commands I used were workarounds needed to update the official release of Arch.
But during most other times, Arch can be updated with the usual commands: Pacman -Syy && Pacman -Syu

I haven't got around to looking at your notes properly tman - I will do so a bit later this evening.
However, my Arch Puppy is coming along! I installed NetSurf as my default browser.
By the way, if anyone else is trying this, you'll need to do:

Code:

pacman -S lcms

in order to get a shared object that netsurf requires.

And i've added a few essentials (gparted, leafpad, hardinfo, mtpaint, pygame).
I've got it starting JWM automatically (after login).
I have been putting off tacking the "icons on the desktop" issue ... EDIT: I can't seem to get a pinboard working. I've tried adding:

Code:

rox -p /usr/Choices/ROX-filer/pin

to .xinitrc, but I still can't put icons on the desktop. Can anyone offer advice?[/b]

I'm not sure about the Rox/Jwm combo but with LXDE, everything is pretty much set up for you. The only problems that I have with it, is that some apps don't appear in the menus after you install them with Pacman.

Thanks to sickgut for his help!
I now have ROX and JWM working together.
I think that what I was doing wrong was that I set a background image in my .jwmrc and so, although the pinboard was there, I couldn't see it. This is where I am up to so far. I need to make some more room in my partition so I can install some more things. But I have Vim and Python, so I am a pretty happy bunny (sorry - Puppy!)
BTW I am posting this from my virtual Pi!

I haven't tried Barry's compile of Rox. What's the advantage of this over the Rox from the Arch repo? Is it smaller, faster? I may try it tomorrow if I get a chance.
Anyway, today I have been continuing to make slight progress.
I've installed xarchiver. I was having problems with Pygame in Python2, so I ditched that and compiled Python3.1.4. The current Arch version is 3.2.3 (I think). Pygame sound doesn't work yet with 3.2.x
Since the post about the "computers at school" manual made it clear that Python 3 will be the main teaching language in the educational release, I thought it more sensible to go for Python 3.
Anyway. I have pygame working now and it's importing images properly. So that's nice. I tried to install transmission-gtk, but got some errors. I will have to check my mirrors more thoroughly.
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